[PATCH] kobject: fix possible memory leak in kset_create_and_add()

From: Yang Yingliang
Date: Sun Oct 16 2022 - 22:34:29 EST


If kset_register() fails in kset_create_and_add(), the name allocated
in kset_create() will be leaked. To fix this by calling kset_put() so
that the name will be freed in callback function kobject_cleanup() and
kset will be freed in kset_release().

unreferenced object 0xffff888103cc8c08 (size 8):
comm "modprobe", pid 508, jiffies 4294915182 (age 120.020s)
hex dump (first 8 bytes):
62 79 5f 6e 61 6d 65 00 by_name.
backtrace:
[<00000000572f97f9>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x1ae/0x320
[<00000000a167a5cc>] kstrdup+0x3a/0x70
[<000000001cd0d05e>] kstrdup_const+0x68/0x80
[<00000000b9101e6d>] kvasprintf_const+0x10b/0x190
[<0000000088f2b8df>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x56/0x150
[<000000003f8aca68>] kobject_set_name+0xab/0xe0
[<00000000249f7816>] kset_create_and_add+0x72/0x200

Fixes: b727c702896f ("kset: add kset_create_and_add function")
Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/kobject.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index a0b2dbfcfa23..f5e943c9027b 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -982,7 +982,7 @@ struct kset *kset_create_and_add(const char *name,
return NULL;
error = kset_register(kset);
if (error) {
- kfree(kset);
+ kset_put(kset);
return NULL;
}
return kset;
--
2.25.1